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I saw some extra backstory on Stan from the website and uh⊠Iâm an emotional wreck TwT So I needed to draw at least something to let him know how loved and important he is
He deserves it.
Broke:
Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.
Woke:
Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.
So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.
If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.
[ID: Gif image from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.
Wikipedia screenshot containing the following:
According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]
Hope the ID helps, it's my first time writing one.
Excerpts from âSee What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to Seeâ by Jess Hill
Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the "Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society") on Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drug use.
And he wrote "Barn, Serier, SamhÀlle" (Children, Comics, Society), basically the Swedish version of "Seduction of the Innocent"; an infamous anti-comics book by Fredric Wertham that led to the Comics Code Authority.
Bejerot described comic books as a "significant mental hygiene and cultural problem that concerns us all."
This is the man who coined the phrase "Stockholm syndrome", guys.
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Please pass this on to everyone so that they are aware of the danger. I donât how it is all around the world but I know it canât just be here so please please spread the word. Thank you.
oh my god
I HAVE BEEN GETTING THIS TEXT REGULARLY FOR WEEKS
HOLY SHIT THANK GOD I DIDNâT
Iâve gotten a few of these. Never ever click a link from an unknown number!!!
oh yeahhhh, I saw that on snapchat. itâs been freakinâ EVERYWHERE lately. i havenât been getting the text, luckily, but im still extremely cautious about it. shitâs scary.
not just girls, but boys and other genders have to be careful as well. this could happen to anyone. please be safe, my friends <3
FOR ALL THE YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW. YOU GUYS ARE SMART. YOU KNOW THIS. BUT JUST IN CASE THERE ARE SOME WHO MIGHT NOT. THAT DOESNâT MAKE YOU NOT SMART, PERHAPS JUST LESS INFORMED.Â
DO NOT CLICK LINKS IN TEXTS EVER. GO TO ACTUAL WEBSITES FOR ONES YOU RECOGNIZE AND TYPE IN THE URL. OR A BOOKMARK IF YOU HAVE ONE. DONâT CLICK LINKS IN TEXTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES/DMS AND EMAILS. EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE PERSON. TAKE EXTREME CAUTION.Â
IF YOUâRE GUTS SAYS EH WOULDNâT DO THAT BUDDY. LISTEN.Â
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uh no im not allowing sex trafficking imma just reblog thisss-Â
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no think. just clicking reblog. -Luci, probably
Oh weâre reblolgging? Is that what weâre doing? Okie!
*SLAMS THE REBLOG BUTTON*
Sorry to bring this back but I just got a text like that today so. Protecting others means informing them.
all my mutuals please reblog this
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Every big-ish blog Iâve ever interacted with, help, please!
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reblog to save a life, spread the word.
oh shit yeah. Reblogging this. Stay safe out there guys!
reblogging for obvious reasons
please be safe everyone
@mod-latte-here-to-haunt-you @xxmoonduskxx @honeylavendersweets @blanca815 @1d1t0t1c-g0at-b01 this Is bs
I UNDERSTAND WHY THIS NEEDS TO BE REBLOGGED BUT WHY AM I LAUGHING AT HOW GODDAMN LONG THIS POST IT-
REBLOG OR YOUR TOES GO MISSING.
This is really scary to think about, but itâs better to reblog than forget about it
[REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE]
Awww, the Pomni short fic made my heart swell! And that's a good thing! Well done, dear author! If you're up to another fic prompt, I have one in mind.
Caine tries to genuinely conjure up an exit as per Pomni's request that will lead to an outside world. But ultimately fails. So to help, Pomni tries to explain what the outside world is like, or as much as she can remember anyway. Caine just ends up creating a pocket dimension. Looks like outside/exit, with nature stuff on it, but not really. Pomni doesn't want to leave the place he just created though. It creates a problem because it's unstable. And so she's sent back at the circus, sadder as ever. Might even abstract.
I wonder how will you write this one ;)âš I have faith that you can do it! Thanks again though!
So sorry this took so long! I am glad you like the last story I made! I hope you like this one!
Warning: This is really angsty
âBossâŠ..youâve been at this for daysâŠ.maybe give it a rest?â
âI CANT BUBBLE!! She wonât love me anymore if I donât do this!â Bubble gave a distraught look towards his master. He has been so different ever sinceâŠ..that dayâŠ..no he wouldnât think about that right now. Maybe if he talked some sense into the stripes, then his boss would go back to normal! Bubble immediately teleported to the location of stripes. He saw her in the same corner she has been in sinceâŠ..that dayâŠâŠâŠnot thinking about that! Bubble floated over to Pomni, with a giant smile.
âHeya stripes! Doing any better?â Silence.
âUh stripes? Did ya hear me?â
Silence.
âStripes, want me to get the boss?â
Silence. Bubble sighed,
âPomni, the boss is worried about youâŠcould you please feel better so everything can go back to normal?â
She finally responded. However, her response wasnât coherent. All that could be heard was the sound of her muttering wordsâŠâŠ.it was honestlyâŠâŠa depressing sight to behold. Bubble teleported back to his boss. However when he arrived, it definitely was not what he was expecting.
âIâve had done itâŠâŠIâVE HAD DONE IT!!! My love will no longer have to suffer anymore!!! She is going to have everything she wanted!!â Caine snapped his fingers and created a mirror before him.
âMy my my I look quite a mess donât I? Well we canât have that!â Another snap and he was good to go. He almost looked normal. Well all except for his tie being completely undone, but that had nothing at all to do with his mental state right? Right?! Caine spared it no mind, or was it pay no thought? Well whatever it was, the only thing he cared about was about to no longer feel depressed! That was all that mattered. He teleported over to his loverâs room.
âOh Dearest~ I have the most wonderful of news!â Caine expected no response from Pomni. After all she wasnât in her right mind! He was going to fix that!
âPomni! I made you a special room in the circus! Itâs modeled almost completely like the real world! Itâs small, but I did it!â Real worldâŠâŠnow those words caught the Jesterâs attention.
âH-Home?â She said with a weak and broken voice. The ring master floated towards the love of his digital life. He cupped her face as though she were a porcelain doll.
âYes my dear, your home.â Though she kept the same expression and broken voice, she seemed to perk up just a little bit.
âTakeâŠmeâŠhomeâŠâ He did not waste any time. Caine took her by the hand and teleported the two in front of an Exit door.
âI know how fond you are of these types of doors, so I put your reality behind it! Go ahead my love! Open the door!â She lifted her hand and opened the exit door. Her eyes widened in shock and amazement. He did itâŠâŠHE ACTUALLY DID IT!
âDo youâŠ.perhaps like it my love?â The jester ran up to the ringmaster and squeezed him ever so tightly.
âItâs perfect! Just like my home!â It was a small town with different shops that you could enter. It looked so realistic. It even had NPCs look like humans! Finally, true happiness could be achieved here for his love. Caine watched in pure enjoyment as Pomni ran around the entire area with wonder and excitement filling her. It had been so long since he saw her look anything other than scaredâŠâŠhe could easily get used to this. Sure it took pretty much everything he had in his code to keep it together for her, but that didnât matter. Nothing else mattered. Only her happiness. Thatâs all that was relevant mattered now. Thatâs all that could ever matter. For two weeks, Pomni hardly ever left the room. Caine couldnât fault her though. She finally had everything she could ever wantâŠuntil she got that look again. He had noticed it around the time of his daily visit to her.
âOh my love! What would you like to do today?â She looked up at him with an almost melancholy expression.
âItâs getting dull Caine.â
âDull? My dear whatever could you mean?â She took a deep breath and tried her very best to explain.
âI guess it just got kinda mundane. Itâs really hard to have fun here, when everyday itâs the same shops, stores, etc. I guess I just want more.â
âThen more you shall have my dear! Give me only an hour, alright?â She nodded and sat on one of the benches that were scattered throughout the âreal-likeâ room. When Caine returned, he looked rougher than usual. Not only was his tie undone still, but now his coat was completely untucked.
âThere you are my dear! More for you to enjoy!â With a snap of his fingers, the room grew twice in size. There were now office buildings and homes, which created the illusion of living in the real world. Her face once more gained that amazed look as she rushed over to the new areas that surrounded the tiny business. This would be the start of a cruel cycle. Pomni would get bored of the new room. Caine would destroy himself making something new for her. She was happy. Until she wasnât. Caine wasnât bothered. Pomni loved him. He knew that very well. She was simplyâŠ..missing home was all. He looked in the mirror at his new appearance. His abilities were completely used, except for the little bit to keep the circus afloat. The ringmasterâs attire was torn and tattered. His hat was smushed flat, his coat was completely unbuttoned and torn. He did not look like the ringmaster of the digital circus.
âBossâŠâŠyou donât look so good.â Caine gave a sigh.
âWhat I look like doesnât matterâŠ..she isâŠ..happy. I love her enough to give her everything she wants.â Bubble floated up to his boss. Even though he was an ai of very little brain, Bubble could tell this was unhealthy. He couldnât stand to just sit and watch his best friend hurt himself like this. He teleported to the room where Pomni now resided.
âStripes!â Pomni turned around and faced Bubble.
âHi Bubble! Are you okay?â
âStripes, the Boss doesnât look so good. Please ask him to take away this world.â
Pomni shuddered to even entertain that thought.
âCaine made this place to show how much he cares for me. Wouldnât it hurt him more if I asked for him to take everything back?â Bubble gave a load groan.
âFollow me, stripes.â Pomni did as Bubble asked. As soon as she walked outside her new room, the Jester saw how broken the circus looked. Pieces were falling, the stage curtains were ripped, doors were off their hinges. Caine would never let this slide! Where was he?!
âWhy hasnât Caine done anything about this? He loves this circus more than anything.â
âNot more than you, Pomni.â NoâŠâŠnoâŠâŠit wasnât her fault that this was happeningâŠâŠ.was it? She felt something deep within her break. Black squares began to surround and began to slowly engulf her. Bubble did not know what to do. Caine ran with everything he had in him. He felt the pain she was feeling and he knew what would happen next.
âPOMNI!â He cried out in desperation. Though she had not yet fully transformed, her mental state had already left her. Caine grabbed her face and pulled her close.
âPomni! My love! Please look at me!â The darkness continued to engulf her.
âWhat do you need?! I can give you anything, you want! Just say the word, my dear!â He tried snapping a few things into existenceâŠâŠbut nothing happened. Pomni saw that.
âI donât need anything!â She tried to cry out to the love of her life. However thatâs not what came out of her mouth.
âNeed everything.â That is what Caine heard.
âI can give you that! Just pleaseâŠâŠ.â He began to break down in tears.
âPlease, PomniâŠ.donât leave me!â Seeing her lover broken, she broke her even more. If she had never shown him true love, then he wouldnât be like this. If she never told him how she felt about the real world, then he wouldnât have hurt himself giving her what she wanted. She needed Caine. Seeing him break like thatâŠâŠhurt more than anything. With that she fully lost her old form.
âPOMNI!â The jester known as PomniâŠ..was now no more. A feeling Caine had never known before.
âPOMNI!! I DID EVERYTHING FOR YOU!! I GAVE EVERYTHING FOR YOU!! WAS IT NOT GOOD ENOUGH?!â He screamed at the creature.
âWasâŠ.was I not good enough?â
Broken sobs, overcame the circus.
Fin~
I kinda wanna make a part twoâŠâŠlemme know if yall want that.
(I am still doing ship one-shots. Send me an ask or a comment and I will do it. As long as it follows the guidelines ofc.)
i updated it due to current happenings
edit: FUCKING REBLOG IT. LIKES DONT MEAN SHIT!
every time theres a new bad tv show or movie people act like its the end of the world you guys need to learn about the not watching shit method iâve been successfully employing the not watching shit method for years
This tag deserves to be seen
One shot fic about Showtime where Caine "mildly" celebrates how he isn't the smallest/shortest member of the group anymore when Pomni arrived at The Tent!
This one was a bit tricky, but I think I got it! (Hopefully)
Hope you like it!
âAh Crap, I canât reach it.â Gangle said trying to fit into the small room.
âHate to break it to ya ribbons, but I highly doubt you are going to fit in there.â Jax snarked from the outside.
âI really thought I could get it by myself.â Gangle nearly sobbed, as she exited the room.
âYou might be made out of ribbons Gangle, but there is no way you are short enough to get your crayons.â
âWell you were the one who scared me and made me drop them in the first place.â Gangle pouted. Jax chuckled and patted her head.
âDonât worry your little head Gangle, we can just ask the shortest member of the circus to get them for you!â Almost as if on cue, Caine teleported right next to Gangle and Jax.
âDid someone say my name?!â
âUh no, neither one of us said your name, but since youâre here could you do me and Gangle a favor?â Caine pulled at the cuffs of his jacket, trying to act like he was about to do something extraordinary.
âWhat can I help you with Jax?!â
âCould you bring Pomni here?â Caine was confused at this request.
âPomni? What do you need her here for?â Jax could tell Caine was getting a tad annoyed at the fact that Pomni was needed instead of him. Gangle face palmed as she practically could read what Jax had in mind.
âJust bring your jester here, would ya?â Caine raised his eyebrows (did he even have those?), nevertheless with a snap of his fingers Pomni was teleported to them. She stood there with a shocked look on her face as she tried to process what was happening.
âPomni my dear! It seems as though Gangle and Jax are in need of your assistance! I am not quite sure what you could do for them that I canât do, but still they insist on you!â Pomni blinked her eyes, finally catching up with everything that was happening. With a shake of her head, she was able to process everything better.
âUh sure? What do you guys need?â Jax grinned and pointed towards the small hole-like room.
âGangle here needs you to grab her crayons that mysteriously disappeared down there.â Pomni nodded and hopped into the tiny room with ease. She quickly was able to retrieve the crayons without any issues.
âThatâs what you needed her for! Why couldnât you have asked me to help you? I couldâve just gotten it for you I am the shortest member of the circus after all!â Caine asked with a shocked tone of voice.
âWell you see Caine you arenât. Well at least not anymore. Pomni here is now the shortest member of the circus, and is way better at fitting into small places.â Caine floated dumbfounded at this new information. Pomni wasâŠ..short. The silence was awkward but short lived.
âI am going to get back to my drawings, thank you Pomni for your help.â Gangle said before walking away to another room.
âItâs my job to bother her, and I am on the clock. See ya!â Jax ran off quickly in the direction of Gangle. The ringmaster just floated in silence, causing his jester to be quite uncomfortable.
âUh Caine?â She tapped the end of his heel, causing him to quickly snap out of whatever trance he was in.
âPomni my dear! I just had the greatest revelation!â He said as he picked her up and twirled her around.
âOh really? What is it?â
âYou are short!â Pomni looked at him with a weirded out expression.
âDonât you see my dear! I have always been the shortest member of the circus! However, you have beaten me in terms of short height!â Pomni nodded her head slowly.
âI donât see why thatâs a thing you are excited about, but uh yeah I am short.â
Caine gave her a giant squeeze before putting her down on the ground.
âIâve got to go my star! There are so many things I have got to do at this moment!â Pomni felt some unease. Normally when her partner says that it usually ends in her having to do something unorthodox, but at the moment she didnât really care. A few hours later though, Caine teleported her to his location with what appeared to be a huge smile on his face.
âMy dear, would you be so kind as to assist me with something?â He said in a way too excited tone.
âWhat is it Caine?â
âWell I seemed to have dropped my staff and it rolled under that chair. I am afraid I am unable to retrieve it due to my height. Would you be a dear and help me get my staff?â Pomni rolled her eyes. She would do it of course, but now that Caine has found something new and âexcitingâ for him he is going to make sure that he continues to do it until the rest of the cast (or in this case Pomni) yelled at him. She was right. He had a numerous amount of âjobsâ and âways she can helpâ. After a while of this taking place, she decided to talk to the ringmaster.
âUh Caine, can we chat for a second?â Caine floated towards his lover.
âWhy of course my love! What exactly would you care to discuss?â
Pomni took a deep breath.
âWhy exactly are you giving me jobs fit for a short person? I get that I am short, but itâs starting to get really annoying.â Caine took off his hat and gave a soft expression towards Pomni.
âThat certainly was not my intention, I simply thought it was really interesting having someone be shorter than me. I had no intention of being considered annoying my dear! I was more excited and curious! I hope you can look past this error.â That actually made a lot of sense to Pomni. Being an AI whoâs seen everyone else be greater in size, seeing someone of a different height is interesting. She gave a slight chuckle and patted him on the shoulder.
âItâs fine Caine. As long as you promise to not make me do any âshort tasksâ again.â Caine placed his hat back on his head and scooped her up into his arms.
âI make no promises on that my dear! I think your height is rather adorable! I am going to show everyone that only my cute jester has the ability that no one else possesses here!â Pomni gave a small laugh.
âAre we just going to ignore the fact that you can magically teleport things and change the sizes of spaces?â
Caine laughed along with Pomni.
âFor this instance, I suppose we shall my love!â
Fin~
(I am still doing ship one-shots. If you have an idea send me an ask or comment and I will do it. As long as you follow the guidelines.)
Someone gave me the prompt of Caine and Pomni Ice skating on the digital lake. I'm not exactly sure how to go with this one, but it's worth a shot!
Skating - Showtime (CĂP) One-shot!
Requested by: @marvosa-yroz
[ASKS/REQUESTS: OPEN]
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"h..how do you get into writing and publishing graphic novels professionally? đ„șđđ"
i was sent this as a retrospring ask but i was writing so much that i didn't want to lose the text. so now it's a long post. anyway the way i got in started with an event that i don't think exists anymore (an agent pitching hashtag on twitter) but the traditional ways still exist and i know enough about them to sketch it out.
but before we talk about actually getting into the industry, do you have a complete outline written that tells potential agents and editors exactly what happens in your story? do you have a sample of 8-10 COMPLETE pages from (the start of) that story ready to go? do you have an idea of where in the market your work fits? middle grade, YA? sci-fi? romance? fantasy? nothing else after this point is worth reading or thinking about until you have those things prepared. go do them and come back.
Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:
Replacing a HDD with an SSD
Adding RAM
Graphics cards if you're nasty
Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you're using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you're using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)
Customizing what runs on startup for your computer
Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:
Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin
adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren't constantly reloading
Closing some fucking tabs bud I'm sorry I know it hurts I'm guilty of this too
Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:
Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.
Correcting disk utilization errors
Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:
Clearing cache and cookies on your browser
Restarting the computer
Changing your screen resolution
Uninstalling unused browser extensions
Things that do not actually make your computer faster:
Deleting files
Registry cleaners
Defragging your drive
Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.
This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.
There are people saying "what does this mean" so:
Meaningfully Faster
HDD means "hard disk drive" SSD means "solid state drive." An HDD has a spinning platter and a mechanical arm that has to wiggle back and forth very quickly to read the information written on the platter, while an SSD is a silicon chip that has the information "flashed" into it (basically it takes a snapshot of bits with electricity - it's unimportant how it works, just that it doesn't require mechanical movement to access data, and is therefore MUCH faster).
Installing an SSD does *not* require an M.2 slot and does *not* require a ton of expertise on most computers. There are many SATA SSDs available and if you want to replace your HDD all that you need to do is clone your hard drive and look up how to install your new SSD on ifixit (link in a bit).
Your storage drive (SSD or HDD) is the drive that stores the files and programs on your computer. People often confuse long-term drive storage with "memory" and when they get low-memory warnings they think they need to delete stored files. This is inaccurate because:
RAM is Random Access Memory - if is basically the "working memory" of your computer, it keeps track of all the things that your computer does/is doing. For example: if you are working in your browser, the browser is not saving everything that you're doing to your desktop so everything that is going on in your browser is using RAM to remember what pages you've got open and what images are on them, etc. Same if you're working in any other program: if you're writing a word doc and you haven't saved it in a while, all the changes are being tracked by the RAM but are not yet saved on your storage drive. "Low Memory" doesn't mean you're out of room for your computer to hold onto files, it means your computer is low on memory to think about stuff. Because programs are written to use more and more memory as time passes (which is a good thing, for the most part, but causes frustrating problems for people with older devices) older computers will struggle to run modern programs with the amount of RAM the older computers have in them.
RAM comes in different speeds, and the speed of your RAM does matter but if you get RAM that matches the speed of your installed RAM you should experience better speeds from your computer. Some computers have the RAM directly soldiered to the motherboard and cannot have RAM added (this is pretty much true of all macs. I do not recommend buying macs.) but if your computer DOES allow you to add RAM it is generally an easy process - check IFixIt.Com for instructions: just search the model number of your computer and look at the replacement guide for RAM and you will be able to see if you can replace your RAM and see the steps to follow along if you want to do that. There are a large number of tools to look up what RAM will work in your computer. Personally I like the Crucial RAM Configurator tool. Just look up your computer and it will recommend compatible RAM. You don't have to buy the Crucial RAM, you can use the Crucial RAM configurator to get the specs you need and then search for yourself by Size, Memory Technology, Speed, Format, and number of Pins.
Graphics cards are for graphics processing and they're "if you're nasty" because adding a dedicated graphics card is kind of a big hurdle these days: computers are smaller inside than they used to be and graphics cards are big and they are also very expensive right now. Unless you are using a gaming laptop you likely cannot add a graphics card to your laptop, and unless you have at least a couple hundred dollars to spare you can't add a graphics card to your desktop either. But also they will only speed up a very specific subset of applications; if you don't do anything that requires a GPU to get shit done (video rendering, really complicated math, etc) then it isn't going to make your computer faster.
Norton and McAfee run in the background of your computer at all times and can suck up a lot of valuable memory, especially if they decide to randomly start a scan or check back in with the mothership to make sure you've paid for another seven years. They are annoying and they can slow everything else down - McAfee in particular is notorious for this. Modern Windows Operating systems (10 and 11) have a lot of security features built in at baseline and Windows Defender is a perfectly functional whole-device antivirus for almost all users. It was never true that macs couldn't have software infections or couldn't be infected with malware, it's just that *people used to write fewer malicious softwares for mac( and NOW there are a lot more infections written for OSX *and* mac users often think they don't need antivirus. Buds. You do need antivirus. Since Bitdefender only has a free virus scanner for Mac, not antivirus, and Sophos Free is only good for a month, and Avast has recently sold customer data, try Avira.
If you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on "task manager" you will find a list of applications that run on startup. Programs that run on startup are turned on and active every time you start your computer, regardless of whether you use the program or not. So, for instance, let's say you have an HP printer and there are drivers for the printer on your computer but you only print things maybe twice a year. If your HP Printer Print Utility is set to run on startup that means that every time you start your computer it wakes up and turns on this program, which slows down your startup time and takes processing power in the background. So just disable it on startup and only start the program when you need it. The only difference here is that it'll take a few seconds to start the utility when it's time to print. Things that I've got disabled on startup include: Microsoft Edge, Adobe, and Cortana.
Faster Browsing
You should be using Firefox anyway because Firefox rules and in literally hundreds of tests performs as well or better than chrome. If someone says that firefox is ridiculously slow it is because they've either set up a really weird configuration, have had the install go wrong, or just don't understand what they're doing. But ASIDE from that you should use Firefox with Ublock Origin because Ublock Origin is an *amazing* adblocker that doesn't whitelist ads and lets you do things like manage cookies and block annoying popups and a bunch of other stuff. And as of 2023 it will be impossible to install Ublock Origin on Chrome so you may as well switch to Firefox now and live that ad-free life. Ad-blocked browsing speeds up your browser because your computer isn't spending extra energy on loading ads and less shit loading means less RAM utilization means faster computing.
Auto Tab Discard is an extension that allows you to set tabs to sleep after an amount of time that you determine. You can customize your experience so that it doesn't sleep tabs with partially filled forms, or doesn't sleep tabs with media playing in them, or doesn't sleep a specific tab for a session, or doesn't ever sleep tabs from a specific website. Many people use OneTab, which basically turns your tabs into a bookmark list that opens the page when you click in OneTab, but I personally prefer Auto Tab Discard - neither of those are "better" than the other, it's just a question of what works for you.
Faster if you are having an actual problem
Open tabs eat RAM. Your computer is expending memory thinking about what's on all of those pages and even if most of them are slept you probably have more awake tabs than you need.
Malwarebytes has a free virus/malware scanning and removal tool that you can download and run to identify and remove malware or viruses that may be stealing your information and running background programs that are fucking up your speeds. If you think your computer might be slow because you might have a virus, go to malwarebytes, download the free version, run a scan, and follow the instructions that it gives you.
Disk utilization errors happen for a number of reasons and they will all slow down your computer. Here are some of the reasons they happen and some ways to fix them. If you hare having a persistent disk usage error issue *DO NOT* replace your HDD with an SSD until it is resolved because these errors can destroy an SSD.
Superficially Faster
Your browser cache and cookies are the things that your browser remembers between sessions: it might be logins for various sites or the logos of your homepage or a bunch of other stuff. If your browser is running super slow because you haven't cleared cache/cookies for a long time, doing this can help because it will basically make your browser forget about the cookies it has been carrying around for five years for a site you haven't logged into since four years and seven months ago. These are tiny pieces of data but they can add up over time which is why they will make your browsing experience faster if you haven't done it in years but won't make a difference if you clear your cookies and cache monthly. Doing this will log you out of all the sites you're logged into (which shouldn't be a huge deal, but you do need to be ready to log in a bunch, so you should HAVE A PASSWORD MANAGER TO MAKE THAT EASIER). This will make your browser run a bit faster, but if your computer is slow for non-browser reasons or if your cache/cookies have been cleared recently it will have no impact on your computer speeds.
Restarting your computer will speed your computer up for a bit because it will shut down all the programs you had running and clear your computer's RAM of all the stuff it was remembering for as long as you had those programs open. This is, again, a superficial improvement, and if you have, say, restarted your computer three times today it is unlikely that restarting again will do anything for you. But yeah if it's been a couple weeks, friend, restart your computer it is tired and it wants to run patches and it needs to forget the twenty docs you're editing for a minute so it can get its head on straight.
Reducing your screen resolution can make your computer run a bit faster if you're doing graphics-heavy stuff and have really shit built-in graphics support, but realistically all it is likely to do is make your computer look weird.
Your browser extensions run on startup and cause your browser to use more RAM at baseline; you should be installing minimal browser extensions and uninstalling any that you don't need. If it's been a while since you checked your extensions go uninstall the unused ones right now and restart the browser and you may speed up a bit. But the majority of people in the world run pretty minimal extensions so this is unlikely to fix most people's problems.
Will not make your computer faster
Unless your storage drive is within 10% of its maximum capacity it is in no way fucking up your speed. If it is within 10% of capacity go delete whatever's in your downloads folder, clear out your temp files, and empty your recycle bin. If that doesn't take care of it, use a backup drive or a thumb drive and copy off the photos, videos, and music you don't use very often, and only keep what you're using on your computer. If you've got an SSD having too little storage available can fuck with the lifespan, so aim to keep at least 10% free.
Registry cleaners are supposed to clean your computer's registry; basically they're supposed to look at the index of all the stuff your computer knows and delete redundant or outdated entries on the index. However it has been literal decades since a registry cleaner would be able to meaningfully improve performance while they can still absolutely fuck your computer up bad enough that it needs a reinstall and a lot of them are just straight up malware, some of them are actual for-realsies ransomware, a bunch of them sell your data, and you don't need ANY of them. If you don't know enough to fuck around with your registry by hand you shouldn't trust some random ass software that has a history of data breaches and virus infections associated with it. Fuck all registry cleaners.
Manual drive defragging has been obsolete on Windows Machines since Windows 7 shipped with an automatic defragging utility in 2011. In the past when you saved a file to a hard drive it might save that file in a bunch of little pieces scattered all over the platter, so accessing that file meant accessing all the *fragments* of that file and "defragging" meant taking some time every once in a while to put files together into whole files instead of fragments. But then eleven years ago Windows made that process automatic, so unless you have *seriously* fucked up your computer somehow it shouldn't be an issue, and if it is an issue you can run a defrag and then make sure automatic defragging is enabled. But that whole conversation is probably moot since SSDs don't need to be defragmented (and defragging them actually adds to the device wear). So basically if your computer actually DOES need a defrag it is probably more fucked than you initially thought and unless that is the case then it is already defragging so doing an additional defrag won't make anything faster and/or might cause extra wear to an SSD.
If you are using an older computer and it is tortuously slow and you can't upgrade the RAM or swap in an SSD but you *can* install software, I would strongly recommend installing Linux.
The vast majority of people these days use computers primarily for web browsing and occasionally use an office suite. Most people don't even store their music or photos on their computers these days. If your computer is basically an internet machine that you don't use for anything other than browsing and basic word processing/spreadsheets, then there is no reason not to switch to Linux.
I would recommend installing Linux Lite, which is a well-supported, widely-used distro that most computers built within the last twenty years should be able to run. It's called "Lite" because it is an operating system that requires minimal processing, storage, and memory to run.
To do this you will need:
A 4GB USB stick or a blank DVD to create installation media
An internet connection to download the software
Another computer or phone that you can use to follow the instructions, or a printed/written copy of the installation guide
A computer on which to install Linux. Installing Linux as the sole operating system on this computer (which is my recommendation here) will mean that everything else on the computer is deleted. Save all of your files/movies/music/etc. to a backup drive or another computer before you install Linux, because installing a new OS will delete literally everything on the computer and make it impossible to get back.
Here is where you can download Linux Lite.
Here is the Linux Lite help manual, I've linked you directly to the step-by-step installation guide. If you get to a step that you don't understand, search the terms that you're unfamiliar with phrased as questions like "why do I need an ISO to install linux?" or "how do I enter UEFI BIOS on my version of Windows?"
Follow the instructions for installing Linux Lite, and then you can install software on your new OS. Linux Lite comes bundled with Libre Office, which is a free office suite like Microsoft Office that has programs similar to Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. It installs with Chrome, so I would recommend installing Firefox and uninstalling Chrome as soon as you're able to get on the internet.
After that you can pick and choose from a wide variety of linux-compatible software and you can use your computer as a regular computer. I'd say that it's probably a good idea to be picky about what software you install, and to try to keep your computer as lean as possible if you're trying to get a longer life out of an old device.
There are a lot of people in the notes who are saying "my computer can't even load four tabs" or "my computer can't even open the software I need to do this" and if that is your computer I think you've pretty much got nothing to lose from installing Linux. If your computer is essentially unusable in Windows then it's probably not going to be *less* functional in Linux, unless you're keeping the computer the way that it is for some very specific software you're using.
A lot of people think that they can't uses Linux because it's entirely in the command line or doesn't have a graphic interface or something, but most linux distros only look about as different to users as windows does to mac or vice versa.
This is what the Linux Lite default desktop looks like:
It's got a start menu and a task bar and folders on the desktop, same as any other computer. It's very easy to use and has the help manual installed right there as soon as you're up and running so that you can troubleshoot your way through any issues.
Really, seriously: if your computer is slow as fuck and all you use it for is web browsing, this will make your computing experience significantly better without having to buy anything but a thumb drive.
People are reblogging just the first section of this post and asking what these things mean, so I'm reblogging this in hopes that they'll see the comprehensive update in the notes.
I want everyone reading this to know that importing bookmarks from any other browser to firefox is a very simple process that will take just a few minutes. Here are some step-by-step instructions from Mozilla on how to import your bookmarks: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-data-another-browser
Hey there, if you like this post you might like it even more as an organized page on my website that can be easily printed into a PDF and shared with people without having to send them to a tumblr link and a weird thread to get the information.
The page is a little more in-depth and technical and has a bit more info on troubleshooting and diagnostics.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now iâm thinkingâŠ.maybe this is the good luck post
âŠ..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.Â
So you know.Â
This might be the real one, yâall.
At this point literally anything helps.
For my upcoming mid terms, semi finals and finals. Please.
Eh fuck it letâs do this not like iâm gonna lose anything anyways
Character/Show information found on Gooseworx's tumblr
I went into Gooseworx's tumblr and made a list of all the info found on there so far.
Note: This will update as more and more posts are made.
Caine named himself before deciding that it's an acronym that stands for Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity (he thinks it makes him sound professional)
Caine does not have an age. He is an AI.
Apparently, Caine is likely the best singer out of everyone in the circus.
Caine would own a circus peanut shotgun.
Caine can't grasp the concept of irony.
Caine is not affected by "this statement is false"
If Caine could remove his clothes, he'd have nothing underneath.
Caine would only bite his eyes or tongue if he thought it's funny. Otherwise, they clip through his teeth
Caine is short.
Caine does not understand verbal pranks (example: 'Joe Mama', 'Updog' etc). Even after having them explained, he'd still take them literally.
Bubble speaks in reverse once in episode 3.
Bubble is a much simpler AI created by Caine
Apparently, Bubble is the biggest slut.
Bubble is Caine's little hype man
Bubble likes being popped.
Bubble is a boy
Out of everyone, Bubble is the most likely to wear drag.
The moon is an AI "like Bubble".
The sun can talk too.
Pomni's hat is a part of her body
Pomni does not like being touched
Pomni's first design looked liked a frog
Pomni's reaction to herself in the mirror isn't a positive reaction
Apparently, Pomni's hair is black.
Pomni is good at accounting.
Ragatha gives the best hugs
Ragatha has been in the circus the second longest.
Ragatha is older than Pomni.
Ragatha likes horses.
Ragatha can play the Cello.
Ragatha can see through her button eye.
There's a particular character who hasn't been revealed yet who's practically a Gooseworx self-insert. (He's the mean one...Jax?)
Nobody likes Jax
Jax doesn't have a tail.
Jax's colour is periwinkle.
Jax deserves to be trapped in the circus the most
There's nothing heroic about Jax.
Jax is morally the worst character in the show.
Jax is the youngest member in the circus.
Jax didn't enter the circus at the age of 14.
Jax mistreats Gangle the most because shew the easiest to mistreat.
Jax is afraid of corn because it reminds him of something called 'the farm'.
Jax is a troubled individual.
If you gave Jax an unholy amount of praise, he'd be confused and frightened.
Jax mainly bullies the girls because he has issues he hasn't worked out with himself yet.
Jax most likely went through an emo phase
Gangle like to draw, specifically anime.
Gangle only has comedy and tragedy masks.
Gangle's favourite animal is Azumanga Daioh.
Gangle has a body pillow with a character on it.
Gangle watched One Piece, and her favourite character was Chopper.
Kinger is not British.
Kinger is the tallest and oldest
There is an episode that heavily features Kinger.
Kinger and Zooble eat like a chao
Kinger saw the gastral giveaway in a vision after eating two spoons of gravel.
Kinger knows how to play chess.
Zooble almost gets no screen time in the first two episodes
Zooble's appearance is based on ZoLo blocks
Zooble has a 'zooble box' of parts in their room.
Zooble does not like hugs
Zooble has been in the circus the second shortest.
Zooble is very grouchy and irritable.
Zooble is half a year older than Jax.
Zooble is alright with any pronouns
Zooble would smoke weed if possible.
Zooble is the worst at giving hugs
Zooble is constantly trying out different parts.
Zooble is the most likely to punt Jax into the abyss at any given moment
Zooble can play the drums.
Zooble most likely went through an emo phase.
Zooble was a tattoo artist at one point.
Zooble was a stoner
Zooble most likely dyed their hair in the real world.
How each member of the cast would react if you called them 'adorable'.
Nobody in the circus is truly sane
Heres the casts ages.
Pomni - 25
Jax - 22
Ragatha - 30
Zooble - 22
Gangle - 26
Kinger - 48
The performers can feel pain
Every character has a reason for the way they act.
The cast doesn't have bones, but they do have a visible skeleton when they're being electrocuted.
The black queen chess pieces name is Queenie
Queenie being a black chess piece and Kinger being a white chess piece has no relevancy to their relationship. It's only a design choice.
Queenie and Kinger aren't siblings.
The abstracted and lost eyes only look similar due to limited creativity in creature design.
Abstraction can't be undone.
The abstracted all look the same
A gloink king exists. It looks exactly like a normal gloink and dies immediately after mating.
There's "technically" a worm in episode 2.
There are "many" characters in the show that we don't know of.
The typical episode length will be 21-25 minutes.
There won't be any romance on the show. Stop asking.
Apparently, a character we haven't met yet is getting the next episode for them.
Some episodes are a '1' on the horror scale, some are a '6'.
As of november 6th, Gooseworx says, "The plan is eight episodes total, one season"
Note that some of this info may have changed since posting (or may have been revealed in the pilot), some may change during the course of the show, and some may be joke answers. Please let me know if there's anything I missed!
Part 2
Caine pops often enough into people's rooms out of nowhere enough to be a constant looming threat to their privacy.
Pomni's sharp teeth will return in episodes 2 and 3
Bubble doesn't interact with any other characters besides Caine in the whole series
There is a whole side of Pomni that people tend to mischaracter because we didn't see it in the pilot
Pommi won't be as paranoid as she was in the pilot
Ragatha's button eye functions like a regular eye
Ragatha's dress is blue, the lighting makes it look purple
Ragatha handles stressful situations by internalizing
Jax says "Aww, no more ramming?" In the next episode
Jax is a pathetic loser with no friends
Zooble would most likely have dyed hair in the real world
Gooseworx lied about 'the farm'
Gooseworx also lied about Gangle being able to walk on water during a full moon
all of the following episodes described in one word
apparently, out of the cast, Zooble would make the best bartender
boy
damn
oh...
haha!
guns
huh?
OH
what...
the next episode is apparently about depression
apparently, nobody has correctly guessed what episode 2 is about
a character in this show does something spoiler heavy in episode 3
a character says "What kind of mother do you think I am?" In episode
we'll eventually learn more about the void or the mysterious computer we saw at the end of the first episode
apparently, there's all sorts of symbolism everywhere
one of the new characters say "naur..." at some point
a character will say "Do it, it'll be epic" in episode 2
the ghost lady's name is Martha Mildenhall
the new characters are all NPCs
I am making so many âhey mutuals!â posts but this one is serious and it applies to everyone who sees this post actually. PLEASE REBLOG.
I just had to block someone with this flag as their pfp -
For those who donât know, this is the MAP pride flag. This flag represents pedophiles.
Please reblog so people know that they are not welcome anywhere. Mutuals I BETTER see yâall reblogging this
EVERYONE REBLOG!!!!
I have to break my silence because this is an EMERGENCY, BLOCK AND REPORT ANYONE that has this in their profile or if they support these pathetic excuses for diarrhoea. They will NEVER belong here, blocking and reporting them WILL help save potential victims. Please also REBLOG so more people are aware of this!
REBLOG AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!!!
The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.
I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he âregularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,â I have a strong spiritual connection with him.
I fucking love him
i can imagine this guyâs voice very clearly in my head but i couldnât put a name to itÂ
He also jabs racists in the eye!
I love the justice grandpa of fists
Iâm very lucky to own a book thatâs a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.
He was a enjoyable cuss who didnât care for war mongering.
Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!
He certainly didnât like selfish husbands and fathers!
Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs werenât safe.
He said fuck the police!
He absolutely didnât like people ruining little things for kids.
He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.
He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.
You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. Heâd right that wrong real quick!
And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.
I have a new role model
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âjustice grandpa of fistsâ
Itâs nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon thatâs NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.
Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited
Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I havenât seenâŠwhy did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.
we need him more than everâŠ
sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content:Â
Heâs a hero, our Everett.
places where you can read more of the strips for free:
This book has 100 pages and was uploaded by lyons on October 21, 2021. The file size is 96.09mb. Publisher is Single And Small Run
Barnacle Press: Comics 1.0
the second one contains older strips from back in 1905 and goes up to september 1909